Weight Transfer

I learned the mechanics, I learned the swing path, stance, wrist hinging, shoulders turn, knee bending, spine angle, hips initiation. I learned the rhythm, swing weighting, course managing, lie reading.... Among all these, somehow I have forgotten to learn and figure out the proper weight transfer.

Ohh, weight transfer doesn't come in naturally in golf swings, at least not for me. Without the sequential progress in transferring weight, all the things mentioned above could be as good as rubbish.

Weight transfer is about first shifting body mass from center to right in backswing and than from right to left in downswing and follow through. Practically, this mass is within the body and it relies on me to move this static mass by stressing on different muscle group both right and left sides. However, as interesting as it sounds, I need to perform this "silent" motion through a stable hip. While I feel the body mass is being moved from one side to the other, I should not have acted as I have moved from one side to the other if viewed externally. This is definitely not easy, especially executing this on a driver where swing speed determines distance. My thighs have to be strong enough to support the repetitive movement of this silent motion but my hips have to be stable.

I have to create a motion which does not move, this is as easy as it gets.

To top off the easiness on weight transferring, all this motion needs to be completed in a particular timing of swing or it will be out of rhythm, which will result a bad outcome that is worst enough for me to break the shaft.

All this time, I have taken this silent motion for granted. Yet, I can assure you that 8 out of 10 weekend golfers carry the same mistake as I do but they think that they know this by heart. I say weight transfer did not receive the attention that it should be receiving, for one it is hard to describe, for second it is not an interesting topic. Next time if you see me standing with my feet apart at shoulder width, doing this weird action of hips shifting, don’t laugh, I am doing my weight transfer practice.